Improved shoe-fastening



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ILPETERS, PHOTO-LITMOGRAPMER, WASHINGYON D C Lattre STATES PATENT OFFICE- CHARLES B. HATFIELD, OF .BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES EUGENE WOODMAN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVED SHOE-FASTENING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 47,356, dated April 19, lt.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, CHARLES B. HATFIELD, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful ShoeFastener 5 and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a front view of it as it appears when applied to the upper and strap of a shoe. Fig. 2 is a top view of it under such circuin stances. Fig. 3 is a front view. Fig. 4 a rearv the buckle orstrap-holder and its catch. Fig. elevation, and Fig. 5 a longitudinal section, of Gis a front view of the catch-plate as it ap pears preparatory to being' applied to the upper of a shoe. Fig. `7 is a front view, and Fig. 8 a cross section, of the said catch-plate as applied to the upper.

1n the drawings, A denotes a portion of the shoeupper having the catch-plate of my invention fastened to it. The part of the shoe for receiving and holding such catch-plate, instead of being apart of the upper itself, maybe a short strap fastened to such upper. A confining strap or tongue, B, is also supposed to be fastened to the upper, and to this strap the remainder of my shoefastener is to be applied, the whole of such4 fastener being thus described. l

I n the drawings, a denotes a rectangular open frame provided with three bars, b c d, extending across it, and parallel,and with respect to its ends in manner as shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5. The two bars c d have a crossbar, c, from which there extends a catch, f, formed as represented. A plate-ton gue, g, is hinged to the bar c, rests on the bar d, and llas a small pointed tongue, h, projecting back from it and toward the bar b, in manner as shown in the drawings.

In the application of the confining-strap B to thebuckle or holder, such strap is first to be passed through the frame of it from the rear to the front thereof, and between the bar d and the next adjacent end of such frame and against the holding-edge of the main or plate tongue. From thence the strap is to be carried across the plate-tongue and tg iin passed through the buckle-framethat the buckle is in use, will be more or less drawn v into the strap.

The socket or catch-plate C consists of a` plate of metal curved transversely and having a holding slot or recess, lf, made through or in it, such slot being provided with a mouth or inlet, Z, which in width, Whereit joins the recess, is somewhat less than the` width of the shank ot' the catch f, the same being so that, in order to get the shank of the catch f into the recess, it will be necessary to turn the catch or the buckle more or less. This construction of the mouth of the catchplate with reference to the shank of `the catch serves to prevent the catch from becoming accidentally disengaged from the recess. l

The catch-plate I provide with suitable means of fastening :it to a shoe, which may be spurs m m m, to go through the leather or upper of the shoe, and may be upset or bent down on its rear surface.

The catch and catch-plate combined with the buckle or strap-holder constitute an eX- cellent shoe-fastener, 011e which, while having the appearance of a common buckle, can be either fastened or unfastened with greater facility and dispatch. With my invention the buckle remains fixed on the confiningstrap. i

I claiml. The combination of the catch fand its socketed plate c, or their equivalents,`with a buckle or strap-holder. i

2.. The arrangement of the pointed tongue h and the larger or plate tongue, g, and the buckle-frame a. l

3. The combination and arrangement of the pointed tongue hl and the larger or plate tongue, g, with the buckle-framed, the catch f, and its socketed plate c, or their equivalents. 4. The catch-socket recess k and it mouth l, as made with reference to the shank of the catch, and arran ged substantially as described.

CHAS. B. HATFIELD. Witnesses Y v R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

